So... how about that Tea Party?

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Final-Fan said:

So what you're saying is that segregation helps racists stay racist, and encourages racism.  I can certainly believe that.  And desegregation helps discourage racism. 

But I'm not sure why people would be more racist now than if desegregation hadn't been forced outside of government or gov't-supported institutions.  Just because people will resist forced change generally, and this resistance ossified?  Or the "affirmative action effect"?  Or what? 
If it's too complicated to explain to a layman in a reasonably-sized post, just say so.  I'm a big boy, I can take it. 

I think that the prevalent racism we see today in some instances is due to the blowback of affirmitive action and other government programs. Although de-segregation helped stem the tide of a lot of vehimently racist problems....It didn't solve racism.

I mean, the fact is that blacks tend to get more government support via welfare and medicare, as well as preferential treatment via affirmative action. Although I am the last person to be racist, you can't help but be slightly aggrivated that one race would get such preferential treatment. There are arguments against whites from blacks for similar reasons - both tend to fuel the fire of sour race relations.

Thats IMO, though. Kind of away from topic, but I still can't believe the Jim Crow Wikipedia page has a picture of a restaurant in Lancaster, Ohio that served whites only. I live about 15 miles from Lancaster...I don't think I've ever met a person there that wouldn't think about firebombing a restaurant that tried that today, ha ha.